By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/13/2025 6:00 AM

AI slop refers to low- to mid-quality content created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy or quality. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/13/2025 5:00 AM

The solar system has eight planets and hundreds of moons. Could extraterrestrials live on any of them? ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 9/13/2025 12:00 AM

Sept. 13, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 3:03 PM

A mummified skull from Bolivia was long thought to be of an Inca man, but a new study finds it had a different history. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 1:08 PM

Federal guidance about the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine has raised questions and confusion around the shots. Have you tried to get one this year? ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2025 12:50 PM

A child in Los Angeles County has died from a rare but always fatal brain disorder that develops years after a measles infection. Experts underscore the need for vaccination to protect the most vulnerable ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 12:13 PM

Camera trap in Chile detects strange lights blazing through the wilderness. Researchers are scrambling to explain them. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 12:04 PM

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, thanks to a rare cosmic alignment. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 12:01 PM

A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 9/12/2025 9:17 AM

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultra-cold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire properties useful in quantum computers. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2025 9:00 AM

Forensic scientist Michael Haag explains how laser scanners could be used to lock down the crime scenes where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, letting investigators revisit angles, trajectories and vantage points long after the fact. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2025 7:30 AM

Whether intermittent fasting helps anyone is unclear, but it does have known health risks. Who can try the dieting trend, and who should avoid it? ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 7:30 AM

Researchers have developed a 6G chip that uses a dual electro-photonic approach to send signals across nine radio-frequency bands. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2025 6:45 AM

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 6:17 AM

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute used remotely operated vehicles to find three new species of snailfish off the California coast. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/12/2025 6:00 AM

A near-Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's newest quasi-moon. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/12/2025 6:00 AM

 In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 9/11/2025 3:28 PM

Turbulence is everywhere, yet much about the nature of turbulence remains unknown. During the last decade, physicists have discovered how fluids in a pipe or similar geometry transition from a smooth, laminar state to a turbulent state as their speed increases. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 9/11/2025 2:10 PM

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a long-predicted phenomenon at the crossroads of relativity and quantum theory. Their novel approach opens new possibilities for exploring fundamental physics and for developing advanced technologies. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 9/11/2025 2:10 PM

The small but ubiquitous proton serves as a foundation for the bulk of the visible matter in the universe. It abides at the very heart of matter, giving rise to everything we see around us as it anchors the nuclei of atoms. Yet, its structure is amazingly complex, and the quest to understand these details has occupied theorists and experimenters alike since its discovery over a century ago. ... Read full Story